We are addicted to gun violence in this country, and until we break the denial and come clean about who we are, we can expect to see more of the same. Read more [...]

Clearly, this is not the gentle women we sing about in church. Rather, this is the one who interrupts meetings at city hall, who is arrested for waging love, who refuses to stand down and shut up. The one whose bold voice cries out in the wilderness that everyone has a right to safe, clean, affordable water. Read more [...]

So, today we sing out with gladness and compose a litany of gratitude for the ways in which the Divine shows up on our doorstep in beautiful and unexpected ways. . . Read more [...]

And so it is this year that voices once again cry out in the desert. Read more [...]

Advent is all about active and engaged waiting. Waiting for justice to be born. Waiting for the arrival of a new heaven and earth where the yoke of oppression with be smashed and there will be water - clean, safe, affordable water for all who thirst. Read more [...]

I propose a moratorium on school as we know it until we can safely return to our classrooms. A year of Jubilee – a time of restoration and healing for our students, ourselves, and our planet. Let’s mobilize our teachers and move to a model of neighborhood-based schooling. Read more [...]

I am not an artist,
but I practice the art of looking deeply and this I know: It is the water that connects us
in suffering and in struggle and in celebration. Read more [...]

The border is where we meet Christ crucified by the gods of greed and war. Read more [...]

We are divorced from our environment, immersed in a bread and circus culture of celebrity and sports, numbed by technology, eating the pigs' slop and calling it good. We are facing global destruction created in our own careless and dominating image. We are  far from home. Read more [...]